The changes in bacterial communities associated with the marine sponge Mycale laxissima on transfer to aquaculture were studied using culture-based and molecular techniques. M. laxissima was maintained alive in flowthrough and closed recirculating aquaculture systems for 2 years and 1 year, respectively. The bacterial communities associated with wild and aquacultured sponges, as well as the sur...

MicroRNAs are predicted to regulate thousands of mammalian genes, but relatively few targets have been experimentally validated and few microRNA loss-of-function phenotypes have been assigned. As an alternative to chemically modified antisense oligonucleotides, we developed microRNA inhibitors that can be expressed in cells, as RNAs produced from transgenes. Termed ‘microRNA sponges’, these com...

One of the mainly popular consumed colloid protein materials in pharmaceutics, medical, food and military industries is Gelatin. Especially from warm-water fish gelatin report poss similar characteristics to mammalian’s gelatin .Yellow fin tuna (Thunnus albacares) gelatin skin, lots of waste in form of skin and bones of the fish are produced every day. Analysis factors were extracted alkaline g...

Gelatin was extracted from hydrolyses of collagen muscle bonds. Gelatin was of two types. Type A was obtained from acidic and type B from alkaline procedures. In the present study we used sturgeon fish skin to produce 25 samples of gelatin. Microbiological and chemical examinations were conducted on the gelatin samples. Based on the results obtained from the chemical examination, gelatin type A...

The aim of our research is the screening of extracts of marine sponges for their antifungal activity against phytopathogenic fungi. The in vitro screening of hydroalcoholic and organic extracts of ten marine sponges from Atlantic coast of Morocco against five phytopathogenic fungi (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. melonis, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris, ...

In the course of investigating the cytology of clathriid sponges a new species from the San Juan Archipelago, Washington, has been found. On the basis of skeletal and field characteristics this form appears to be identical to chela-containing sponges described by de Laubenfels (1927) from California as variants of Ophlitaspongia pennata (Lambe, 1894). Cytological evidence reviewed here (see Sim...

In a preliminary statement the writer (1) presented the proposition that the minimum physical properties of gelatin (conductivity, osmotic pressure, viscosity, maximum opacity) which are usually thought to define its isoelectric point are propert’ies of pure gelatin, and that pure gelatin is not isoelectric; that pure gelatin from lime-conditioned stock is a weak acid which in an electrical fie...

in this study, the effect of gelatin-chitosan edible coating on the quality of chicken breast during 9 days of refrigerated storage (4 was investigated. three concentrations of gelatin (3, 6 and 8% w/v) and two concentrations of chitosan (1 and 2% w/v) were used to prepare the coating materials. samples was divided in 7 group, no coating (control), gelatin 3% and chitosan 1% (sample 2), gelatin...

Consumption of food products derived from porcine sources is strictly prohibited in Islam. Gelatin, mostly derived from bovine and porcine sources, has many applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries. To ensure that food products comply with halal regulations, development of valid and reliable analytical methods is very much required. In this study, a species-specific polymerase cha...

The carbon metabolism of two marine sponges, Haliclona oculata and Dysidea avara, has been studied using a 13C isotope pulse-chase approach. The sponges were fed 13C-labeled diatoms (Skeletonema costatum) for 8 h and they took up between 75 and 85%. At different times, sponges were sampled for total 13C enrichment, and fatty acid (FA) composition and 13C enrichment. Algal biomarkers present in ...